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Posted By: Robert

Yes the major leaguers played the minors a lot in those days. Owners would schedule a game practically every day so that when the majors where traveling to another major park they would stop on the way to play minor league teams. And the city support for minor leagues was just as strong as for majors only on a smaller scale. Also during the off season star players did barn storming tours going to the smaller markets withb a team of all stars playing the local teams. And of course during the pre season the teams would make road trips palky minor leaguers tuning up for the bigs. Back in those days there was a much closer connection between minors and majors then there is today. Read some of the biography's of players from those days, Honus, Cobb, Ruth I wish there was a book about Matty but I am sure it would be practically impossible to compile.